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IBIS and the Runaway Brides!

By
Paul
Published: May 25, 2011Posted in: Business Intelligence, IBIS, Paul Blogs on BITags:
IBIS and the Runaway Brides!

Last weekend I went to see my favorite Roller Derby team – the “Runaway Brides” – and they were just awesome out playing the “Schoolyard Scrappers” to a well deserved and convincing win.  Ellie Mayhem the leading jammer for the “Brides” was just pure poetry in motion as she glided past one bemused blocker after another.

But even more awesome was the fact that I did not just get to watch a game, I actually got to watch two full games that evening plus meet the players and have great exchanges with other Roller Derby fans. It was 4 hours of entertainment and social interaction for an amazing price .

Sure they may have been only 500 people there but that was also part of the appeal – I felt important and appreciated.

It is events like these that are not just great value for money but also bring you great overall satisfaction.  And this is exactly what the InfoSol Business Intelligence Seminar (IBIS) is all about – great value and great satisfaction.

IBIS delivers 3 full days of immersion hands-on boot camp training in the most popular BusinessObjects solutions along with the opportunity to meet top Business Intelligence developers and specialists and have great knowledge transfer exchanges with your peers.  There is also the opportunity to see the latest and future BI products in action and hear about inspired customer solutions recently implemented.

The immersion boot camps which include Xcelsius Beginner, Xcelsius Master, Web Intelligence Master, Crystal Reports 2008 Master and Xcelsius Data caching with InfoBurst are particularly unique.  Hands-on education for these topics at this level is difficult to find.

The best part of all is that the IBIS package includes 3 nights of luxury accommodations at the breathtaking Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel resort overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, all group meals, resort fees, taxes, and free internet.

Last week, I met a BI Director of a major global corporation at the SAP Sapphire conference who commented that while Sapphire was a huge event attended by thousands, it did not compare to IBIS in terms of its first class venues and overall value.

I could not agree more.

Photo Credit: Snip taken from http://www.arizonaderbydames.com/site/press/ all rights reserved.

IBIS 2011 – Can you smell the ocean air?

By
Yolande
Published: May 24, 2011Posted in: IBISTags:
IBIS 2011 – Can you smell the ocean air?

I’ve bookmarked the Ritz Carlton Laguna Niguel website and have been visiting it more frequently now that IBIS 2011 is less than a month away.  26 days away to be exact and I’m very excited because I missed last year’s IBIS at this fantastic resort.  The first line of their home page reads: Escape to one of the world’s finest luxury resorts…

And their pictures speak for themselves. 

But location aside, IBIS 2011 promises to be our best IBIS yet.  With a theme of Inspired Business Intelligence, our hope is to share with you our passion for BI and to provide you the opportunity to connect and be present with each other so that you may collectively inspire and be inspired among a circle of peers.    

Here are some highlights with links to the IBIS website:

IBIS 2011: INSPIRED BUSINESS INTELLIGENCE, June 19 – 24, 2011, offers a robust line-up:

 

IBIS registration includes 3 nights stay at the Ritz overlooking the Pacific Ocean in Southern California, all group meals, resort fees and more.

Register online.  I can’t wait to see you there.

To Cache or not to Cache – Boosting performance in Xcelsius Tech Tip

By
Roxanne
Published: May 23, 2011Posted in: InfoBurst, Products, Tech Tips, Xcelsius, Xcelsius End UserTags: , , , , ,
To Cache or not to Cache – Boosting performance in Xcelsius Tech Tip

I was recently asked this question on how best to handle a 13 month dataset when in the dashboard the goal is to only display monthly detail and summary data.  This is a good question and in my opinion worth sharing here because it is dealing with boosting Xcelsius backend performance.

Question:  Working with a data set consisting of 13months of data with one row for each day (so max 380 rows) and needing to show only monthly detail/summary data in the dashboard, which of the following would you consider to be the better approach to yield the best performance?

1.  Pull 380 rows in cache with date in one column -> pass STARTDATE and ENDDATE from the dashboard and pull every month’s data by writing a cache query.   When the user selects a month for display in the dashboard, Excel will calculate the start and end date of the month and pass those to the cache query with a WHERE clause specifying BETWEEN ‘@STARTDATE’ and ‘@ENDDATE’

Or,

2.  Load 380 rows in the dashboard Excel backend -> calculate the month from the date column within Excel then use a hidden filter to filter the month’s row based on the calculated month in the previous step and calculate the sum and average within excel?

Answer:  As a general rule, if the data set is 200 rows or less, I would say to go with Option 2.  If it is more than 200 rows, I would say you will get better performance with the cache query.  Of course, this also depends on the cumulative total # of rows being loaded into the dashboard.  For example, if you are planning on adding 10+ additional 200 row data sets, then I would definitely go with Option #1.

With too much data in the backend, Xcelsius performance suffers.    InfoBurst allows us to cache a large set of data, and then use a Cache Query to extract just the portion we need to view on the dashboard, as the user makes selections.  This is a tremendous help to the developer who wants to boost Xcelsius dashboard performance.

Keeping IT Executives Current with BI Technology

By
Paul
Published: May 5, 2011Posted in: Business Intelligence, IBIS, InfoSol, Paul Blogs on BITags: , , ,
Keeping IT Executives Current with BI Technology

I recently interviewed a college student who told me that his ambition was to be an IT Director.  He was completing a college program in computer security and had worked as an intern doing network support in the IT department at a large organization.  I did not want to burst his bubble, but most IT Directors I know spend half their time dealing with budgets and administration processes, and the other half in meetings.  They spend very little time exploring and brainstorming over new technologies, innovations and ideas for revolutionizing IT in their organizations.

However, a successful IT Director does need to keep abreast of current and new technologies and IT innovations and compare their processes and ideas with their peers in other companies and organizations.  Unfortunately it is often a challenge to find both the time and the forum to do this effectively.

At best, most IT Directors will only have time to attend one or two conferences or technical seminars a year.  Most such forums typically last three days and will run multiple tracks to provide more choice to a wider audience.  Some events try to be more generic in terms of technology but most will be specific to particular applications, software products or technologies.  However, these types of conferences tend to be put on or sponsored by software application or technology companies, resulting in a disproportionate number of marketing oriented sessions to promote products rather than to educate.

It was with these factors and IT managers, directors and executives in mind that InfoSol created a series of highly informative executive seminars at this year’s InfoSol Business Intelligence Seminar (IBIS).

IBIS is well known for its hands-on immersion training boot camps on different BusinessObjects products, but there has been an increasing demand for concentrated and effective seminars on key  new Business Intelligence technologies as well as how to effectively utilize the latest and greatest BusinessObjects solutions.

There are three Executive Seminar tracks at IBIS 2011.  One covers the new and enhanced offerings with the latest release of the SAP BusinessObjects suite, namely XI4.0.  The sessions in this track will both explain and demonstrate live the new capabilities and educate attendees on their key benefits.

A second track (The Next Generation of BI) covers new and emerging BI technologies with particular emphasis on mobile BI which is of great interest to all these days.  There are also sessions in this track on geographic BI solutions, in memory databases for BI and integrating with internet data sources and applications.

The third executive track (Business Intelligence for Executives) is designed for managers and executives to have a better understanding of all the facets involved in planning, managing and executing a successful BI project.

In addition to the information packed seminars, there are case study demonstrations, customer and expert panel discussions, and plenty of opportunity to have real quality one-on-one information exchanges with peers.

The entire event is limited to no more than 250 attendees, ensuring that it remains a productive and quality gathering for everyone.

I hope you will join us at this year’s InfoSol Business Intelligence Seminar.